I am doing some tutorial videos. I want to have a rotating ring on the screen to show people where to click.

My understanding is, that you can use *.swf files as cliparts.

My questions:

1) Is there a free download for a simple rotating ring? (e.g. a ring made with a dotted line that rotates, used often as loading gfx in flash)

2) Is there a detailed tutorial how to use these things? I made a test with a free SWF file, and I can't change the lenght of the swf. So if the animation is a lenght of 1 second, I want to display it for 10 seconds, starting over and over again. I did not find anything on that topic in the Elements' help.

Wow! Might be more of a question for the Adobe Flash forum than here, Smo. There's really no way to create such a graphic in Premiere Elements. (In fact, Premiere Elements can't even output a .swf file.)

I agree with Steve. This can be done in Flash, and their forum members can probably point you directly to something that will work for you, or can be modified for your particular needs.For interactive animation, Flash is the application.

Now, one way to "loop" would be to drag multiple instances of the animation onto the Timeline in the appropriate Video Track. This would have the same effect as having an animated Clip that did loop. The trick would be to make sure that the starting point, Frame 1, matched the end point, last Frame. That would need to be done in the animation program.

If one needed interactivity (not sure if this is a goal), then the output would need to be into a format, like Flash/FLV, which could then be packaged in an SWF container for distribution.

Another way would be to create a longer FLV, where the animation goes through the number of cycles that you require. However, if you have the animation done, and it does meet the criteria for the first and last Frames, I think that the instances would be the easiest way, rather than going back into Flash and extending its Timeline to suit.